Автор: Annie Kelly; Photographs by Tim Street-Porter Название: Rooms to Inspire ISBN: 0847829170 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780847829170 Издательство: Rizzoli Рейтинг: Цена: 4942.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: David Lindsay was a writer of fantasy fiction who died in 1945. Interest in Lindsay has been growing steadily, and in this book, Bernard Sellin has written a comprehensive survey of Lindsay`s life and work, analysing the thematic patterns of Lindsay`s settings, plots and characters. It will be read with profit by all those who are interested both in Lindsay and in the genre of fantasy literature.
Автор: Fyfe, Nicholas Название: Images of the Street ISBN: 0415154405 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415154406 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 29093.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book contains a history of the origins of youth gangs and the transformation of these into street gangs that often are connected to prison gangs in large American cities. Importantly, the street gang problem has not decreased in seriousness in the past decade even though the U.S. has seen a sharp drop in violent crime.
Автор: Josephine Metcalf Название: The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs ISBN: 1617032816 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781617032813 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 8455.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Focuses on three street gang memoirs memoirs - Shakur`s Monster; Luis J. Rodriguez`s Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.; and Stanley "Tookie" Williams` Blue Rage, Black Redemption. Metcalf examines the conflict among violence, thrilling sensationalism, and the authorial desire to instruct and warn competing within these works.
In the late 1980s, a handful of artists priced out of Manhattan and desperately needing affordable studio space discovered 111 1st Street, a former P. Lorillard Tobacco Company warehouse. Over the next two decades, an eclectic collection of painters, sculptors, musicians, photographers, filmmakers, and writers dreamt and toiled within the building’s labyrinthine halls. The local arts scene flourished, igniting hope that Jersey City would emerge as the next grassroots center of the art world. However, a rising real estate market coupled with a provincial political establishment threatened the community at 111 1st Street. The artists found themselves entangled in a long, complicated, and vicious fight for their place in the building and for the physical survival of 111 1st Street itself, a site that held so much potential, so much promise for Jersey City. Left Bank of the Hudson offers a window into the demographic, political, and socio-economic changes experienced by Jersey City during the last thirty years. Documenting the narrative of 111 1st Street as an act of cultural preservation, author David J. Goodwin’s well-researched and significant contribution addresses the question of the role of artists in economically improving cities. As a Jersey City resident, Goodwin applies his knowledge of the city’s rich history of political malfeasance and corruption, including how auspicious plans for a waterfront arts enclave were repeatedly bungled by a provincial-minded city administration. In writing this story, Goodwin interviewed thirteen artists and residents, two businesses, three government officials, and five non-profits, civic organizations, and community activists. The book chronologically explores the history and business of the P. Lorillard Tobacco Company, its evolution into a bustling arts community, the battle to preserve the warehouse as a historic structure, and the lessons to be drawn from the loss and ultimate demolition of the building in 2007, as well as the present state of the neighborhood. Setting the facts straight for future generations, Left Bank of the Hudson provides an illustrative lesson to government officials, scholars, students, activists, and everyday citizens attempting to navigate the “rediscovery” of American cities.
Автор: Corburn Jason, Riley Lee Название: Slum Health: From the Cell to the Street ISBN: 0520281071 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520281073 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 4752.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Urban slum dwellers - especially in emerging-economy countries - are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, premature death, and reduced life expectancy. This book exposes how and why slums can be unhealthy and reveals that not all slums are equal in terms of the hazards and health issues faced by residents.
Автор: Woudstra Jan, Allen Camilla Название: The Politics of Street Trees ISBN: 0367516292 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367516291 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book focuses on the politics of street trees and the institutions, actors and processes that govern their planning, planting and maintenance, revealing a huge amount about the nature of modern life, social change and political conflict which is particularly important in the context of mounting environmental and societal challenges.
Автор: Justin G McCarthy Название: F Street In Love ISBN: 1098384962 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781098384968 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 5789.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: F Street in Love - Whats it About F Street In Love is an erotic "magic" memoir and an epic tale of the search by Clyde Desmond, the protagonist, for love and success as part of the Baby Boomer generation in America during the early seventies through the late eighties told through 278 stories that follow Clyde on his ambitious journey from suburban Connecticut, through New York City and metropolitan New York, to Boston and Washington, DC. His explorations take him to discovering his mothers familys origins coming from England to Boston in 1635, and his great grandfathers escape from Ireland to Boston in the wake of the Irish Potato famine of 1847-48. He traces the salient details of his parents lives intertwined with describing in greater detail his relationship, his falling in love, love life and heartbreaks with three women at separate times and places: an aspiring model, a medical school applicant and a college student turned law student. Clyde actively supports his girlfriends quest for success and aims to please them in bed. Follow Clyde on his three-month adventure through Europe, his love connection in Italy, his exploration of the art and architecture at the Sistine Chapel, the Vatican Museum and St. Peters Basilica in Rome, and in Paris, including the Louvre Museum. Join him in America along the Atlantic seaboard, down to Florida, through the American Heartland out to California, and at Woodstock. Read his stories about music including Rock n Roll, Altamont, Motown, the British Invasion, Disco and Punk Rock, and the dance music of 1984. Through his brother Bobby, Clyde meets Beverly Anne Johnson in 1965 and she remains close to him until tragedy strikes. Through her Clyde is exposed to racism through the eyes of a Black woman and that is reflected in numerous stories in the book. Other stories are about 6os Idealism, the Vietnam War, Religion on the personal level, Drugs & Alcohol; Harvard and the impact of the Titanic; and the Oktoberfest in Munich. Clydes friend Jerry eventually comes out of the closet, but not to Clyde, a straight guy. F Street In Love includes many stories about Clydes interaction with the Gay community, including his becoming a waiter at an all gay, but him, wait staff at a restaurant in Boston, and his late night arrival in Munich, Germany. The stories will make you laugh, cry, or wonder why.
Описание: For young men in urban Tanzania, barbershops are sites of the struggle to earn a living amid economic crisis. With names like Brooklyn Barber House and Boyz II Men, these workplaces are also nodes in an explosion of popular culture that appropriates images drawn from the global circulation of hip hop music, fashion, and celebrity. Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops grapples with the implications of globalization and neoliberalism for urban youth in Africa today, exploring urban Tanzanians' complex, new ways of understanding their place in the world.
Автор: Hayes, Dr Melanie Название: Best address in town ISBN: 1846828473 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846828478 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5511.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Chelsey L. Kivland Название: Street Sovereigns: Young Men and the Makeshift State in Urban Haiti ISBN: 1501746995 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501746994 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4132.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
How do people improvise political communities in the face of state collapse—and at what cost? Street Sovereigns explores the risks and rewards taken by young men on the margins of urban Haiti who broker relations with politicians, state agents, and NGO workers in order to secure representation, resources, and jobs for themselves and neighbors. Moving beyond mainstream analyses that understand these groups—known as baz (base)—as apolitical, criminal gangs, Chelsey Kivland argues that they more accurately express a novel mode of street politics that has resulted from the nexus of liberalizing orders of governance and development with longstanding practices of militant organizing in Haiti.
Kivland demonstrates how the baz exemplifies an innovative and effective platform for intervening in the contemporary political order, while at the same time reproducing gendered and generational hierarchies and precipitating contests of leadership that exacerbate neighborhood insecurity. Still, through the continual effort to reconstitute a state that responds to the needs of the urban poor, this story offers a poignant lesson for political thought: one that counters prevailing conceptualizations of the state as that which should be flouted, escaped, or dismantled. The baz project reminds us that in the stead of a vitiated government and public sector the state resurfaces as the aspirational bedrock of the good society. "We make the state," as baz leaders say.
Название: Understanding Street Culture ISBN: 1137028599 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137028594 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 17328.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An insightful and theoretically informed overview of street culture in various parts of the world - its origins, functions, manifestations and appeal - examining both its bearing on criminal lifestyles and on the cultivation of `cool.` Contemporary examples and original research are used to evidence new ways of thinking about street culture today.
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